Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

The next day, as Lincoln woke up early for morning exercise, the Wall of Flesh still hadn’t been conquered.

Players became proficient at dealing with the BOSS’s own damaging abilities after dying a few times.

The problem was that the BOSS’s destruction of the entire combat environment was too terrifying.

The erupting lava and falling rocks from above would break the players’ constructed arenas, but there was no choice but to build the arenas, as the ground would shake and make it impossible to keep one’s footing.

The currently viable solution was to build an unprecedented, extra-long and large-scale battleground, with several layers to avoid being easily destroyed by the environment.

It was a massive project, and nobody had completed it yet, so the progress of the “pioneering group” seemed stagnant.

In contrast, the “Survival Challenge Theme Video Collection Activity” was in full swing over the past two days, producing a large number of highly-viewed works.

However, Lincoln was disappointed: he had planned to give Camille Victoria a feast of dark history to watch, but somehow it turned into Yelang and Yi’s home ground??

The top three in play count all belonged to the two of them!

The highest-viewed video, “Yi’s Fantastic Journey,” had even been updated last night, and it reached over 8 million views in one night!

Today, it was 100 percent certain to break ten million!

The person who edited the video was basically guaranteed a “Mysterious Grand Prize.”

Luckily, according to the rules set by Lincoln, as the protagonist of the video, Yi could also share the rewards.

—It wouldn’t be fair if Yi worked hard on the live stream and then someone else edited the video first, taking credit for all the work put into cutting the video.

That would be obviously unfair.

After watching “Yi’s Fantastic Journey” for 8 minutes, Lincoln lost all of his remaining disappointment.

—Anyone who watched the video had to admit: Camille Victoria did not lose unfairly!

Yi was simply being chased by the program’s effects!

He happily forwarded the video to the company group, and after notifying those who needed to participate in the team building on Monday, Lincoln finally got up and started his morning exercise.

After his morning workout, with a short break, he started the most important task of the day: the final step in the cold weapon fight.

Yue Pengju could not stop Lincoln’s stubbornness yesterday even after talking nonstop, and he had no choice but to bring in a whole medical team to watch over the situation overnight.

—Lincoln and Matthew had actually arranged for a medical team in advance, but Yue Pengju didn’t trust them, so he insisted on bringing another batch from the capital for double insurance. Lincoln let him have his way.

But it turned out to be completely unnecessary.

Under Matthew’s astonishing control, Lincoln felt like he was dancing on the edge of a knife.

Especially when the protective gear becomes less and less, after only leaving neck and heart protection, his heart began to race.

He thought that after gradually adapting to the situation before, he would be able to keep up with the rhythm and not panic even without protective gear.

But once he really started, he realized it wasn’t the case—

When Matthew found a gap and cut open Lincoln’s training suit with a knife, the icy cold blade brushed against his right shoulder, instantly shattering his composure. Even though the injury was too light to be any lighter, with only a few drops of blood shed, the panic and chill still quickly took over his heart.

This was something he had never experienced in his previous fights.

It seemed as if all his body heat was escaping rapidly through that tiny wound.

He pulled away, constantly reassuring himself in his mind: “It’s okay! It’s safe! Don’t be afraid!”

But his body uncontrollably shivered.

Lincoln gripped the knife in his stiff fingers and stubbornly charged toward Matthew, who had stayed in place without pursuing.

His attacks were not in vain, as he managed to block Matthew’s strikes time and time again, even bringing the knife’s edge so close to Matthew’s eyes that it barely grazed his shirtfront!

Whenever this happened, his shivering body seemed to be instantly activated by a surge of hot blood, but before it could boil, it quickly cooled again because the knife failed to do any damage.

This rapid change between hot and cold numbed him after just ten seconds or so.

He soon realized that it wasn’t numbness, but that his body’s peak fighting state had passed.

Just these ten seconds of combat left his hands shaking and his breathing rapid after stopping, even feeling completely exhausted.

On the other side, Matthew also quickly dropped the knife after the fight and sat down to rest.

This rarely happened during the previous two days of practice.

But in today’s fight, he rested immediately after each confrontation to maintain his best condition.

Apparently, today’s fight also brought tremendous pressure to Matthew.

It was just unknown whether the pressure was physical or mental…

Yue Pengju was the first to rush over and examine Lincoln’s wounded shoulder, finally relaxing after seeing the trivial injury.

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He then tried to persuade again: “That’s enough, isn’t it?”

“Yeah, this is already pretty much like real combat.” Xu Jiu Sheng on the other side also caught his breath and, for the first time, spoke up to dissuade.

Seeing the worried faces in the yard, Lincoln let out a sigh of relief and said, “Enough! Let’s call it a day!”

A cheer immediately erupted in the yard.

From behind the half-open window on the second floor, a small cheer could also be heard.

—That was Princess Camille Victoria, who secretly came over after she found out about Lincoln’s risky acts, despite persuading him once. She sneaked away surreptitiously without telling her parents and only texted her sister.

She hid herself all the way, fearing not just being discovered but also being seen by many people when she arrived at the Xu Family Boxing Gym. She stayed hidden on the second floor, anxiously watching Lincoln and Xu Jiu Sheng’s confrontations one after another.

In this courtyard, only Lincoln, Yue Pengju, and Xu Jiu Sheng and his son knew about her presence.

Luckily, everything ended smoothly.

With the sensory data collected and the “Virtual Chang’an” project team preliminarily set up, they could officially start production after their return from Chang’an.

Everyone who knew about this project had been looking forward to it for a long time!

Even Wu Di, to this day, still can’t let go and posts a “gugu” post on Spiritual Rhinoceros every day.

Using this obscure way, he tirelessly urged Lincoln and Cloud Dream to hurry up.

“Let’s go! I’m treating everyone to a big meal! Everyone gets a share!” Lincoln shouted to everyone.

Watching the crowd disperse bit by bit, the Little Princess on the second floor felt a little lost.

She wanted to go too.

But she couldn’t reveal herself in public casually, so the more she thought about it, the more upset she became.

“Buzz~~ Buzz~~”

Just as she was upset, her mobile phone suddenly vibrated. It was a message from Lincoln —

“Sorry, I have to treat everyone who’s been with me for so long. I’ll take you out to dinner alone tonight. You can have anything you want.”

“No need.” The Little Princess’s loss vanished instantly, replying, “Just let me go to Chang’an with you!”

“Aren’t you afraid of being found out by your fans? Or are you planning to go public with your work at Cloud Dream?”

Actually, a news story like “Princess comes to intern” wouldn’t harm Cloud Dream’s image at this point.

If anyone still said working at Cloud Dream was frivolous and not serious, they must be crazy.

The biggest obstacle was still Camille Victoria’s parents, who were reluctant to let her enter the industry.

“I… am not ready yet… But I’ve learned special makeup techniques! I can disguise myself!”

“Alright, alright, let’s go together.”

Lincoln easily agreed, chatting with Camille Victoria on one hand, curiously asking her what she could disguise herself as; and on the other hand, taking a group photo with a large group of people under the plaque of the Xu Family Boxing Gym, surrounded by the gym owner Xu Jiu Sheng.

However, he planned to post this photo online after leaving.

Otherwise, within half an hour, they would be trapped in the gym.

After the group photo, everyone went to dinner in a relaxed and happy mood.

*

In contrast to their bright smiles, Turner in Paris wore a look of pain on his face.

Two days ago, they had finally managed to pull ahead and surpassed Germany, securing the third place in the National Warfare leaderboard.

After 6 pm Daxia time tonight, the war zones would be redrawn, and they would rightfully become the T1 War Zone!

But Turner couldn’t feel happy at all right now.

For the past two days, he could only play against Daxia and Russian players in National Warfare.

And most of the casual Daxia players had gone to try out Terraria, leaving behind more than eighty percent of them in Battlefield as gun enthusiasts.

Russian players had an odd preference and were particularly fond of “Hunter: Call of the Wilderness,” but they also performed impressively in Battlefield.

If French players could feel comfortable playing against these opponents, that would be strange!

In the last two days, Turner’s live stream was essentially a record of his breakdown.

He even began to seriously consider: Should he move to another country?